Commentary Quote by Norman Finkelstein

“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it,…

— Robert Whitaker

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling…

— Allen Frances

“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,…

— Mark Fisher

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely…

— Glenn Close

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of…

— Thomas Szasz

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

— Alice Ripley

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or…

— Tom Kitt

“The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.”

— Tamara Hill, MS

“Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid…

— John Briggs

I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.

— Luciana Berger

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

— Peter Breggin